What's New in Silica for Sailfish 2.0

In Sailfish 2.0, we've redesigned the appearance and behaviour of a variety of Silica UI components. We've also made API changes to provide more customization abilities and make it easier to scale UI layouts for different screen sizes.

Here is a summary of the Silica changes in Sailfish 2.0.

Significant UX changes

UI component design updates

Various UI components have been redesigned or tweaked; here are the most noticeable changes.

Pulley menus are now revealed with a smoother look and feel: the response to the drag action has been improved and menus now open with a smooth gradient at the opened edge.

Pulley menus and context menus now indicate the current selection with a larger rectangular background, similar to the effect of pressing on a ListItem. For pulley menus, the selection background now blinks briefly to indicate an option has been selected.

Recommended UX patterns

A dialog header's acceptText should no longer be used to indicate the user-selected value in a dialog. This is reflected by the changes to DatePickerDialog and TimePickerDialog, which now show the selected date and time elsewhere in the dialog.